2015 Year in Pictures (2016 Contest)

Results of the 81st Annual Photography & Multimedia Contest, 205 Year in Pictures and Multimedia Contest, judged on March 4 and 5, 2016. The Best in Show and Portfolio will be announced at the NYPPA Gallery Opening.. These photos will appear in the NYPPA 2016 Annual - Multimedia results | Meet the Judges

2016 MULTIMEDIA WINNERS

Judges Comments:

The judges felt the overall category was weak, with a few strong entries. They felt the long form first place was a good entry but the other long form entries could use better visuals, better sound and better editing (which often appeared rushed). They awarded prizes hoping to encourage greater participation in the category. They said that there are different ways to tell a story and the video is a different skill set, and still photographers moving to the new medium need to apply new ideas in their approach to the new medium. The short form entries were stronger, but many of the same comments applied.

2016 CONTEST JUDGES

James K. Colton Steve Fine Sue brisk

James K. Colton is Editor-at-Large at ZUMA Press and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of zPhotoJournal.com. He began his career in 1972 at the Associated Press. Five years later he joined Newsweek and became their Director of Photography before joining Sports Illustrated as their Photography Editor for 15 years. He was the Jury Chairman for the World Press Photo contest in 2005, received an International Photography Awards “Lucie” for Picture Editor of the Year in 2007, was the recipient of the “Focus” award for Lifetime Achievement by the Griffin Museum in 2010 and has been acknowledged as one of the 100 most important people in photography by American Photo.

Steve Fine is the photo editor at Flipboard, an app that serves 10 million readers a day. Prior to that, he was the Director of Photography at Sports Illustrated for 17 years and before that edited pictures on staff at The New York Times for nine years. He has worked as a freelancer for NBC Sunday Night Football and appeared on HBO’s “Sport in America” documentary.

Sue Brisk began her fascination with photojournalism using the camera she received from her grandmother. Her passion for photojournalism came from being in Memphis Tennessee during the Martin Luther King assassination and following the turmoil in America during 1968.After pursuing photography in high school she attended the San Francisco Art Institute where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography. While working at Newsweek's Boston Editorial Bureau, she earned her Master of Science in Print Journalism from Boston University. For 17 years she worked at Sipa Press, the French Agency representing photographers worldwide, followed by a position at the prestigious Magnum Photos as Editorial Director. Ms. Brisk has been a board member of the EugeneSmith Fund. She has been a judge for numerous photographic events such as Pictures of The Year, The Overseas Press Club and the Santa Fe Fellowship Prize amongst others. She has reviewed work at Houston's FotoFest, Santa Fe's Reviews, Portland's PhotoLucida, Fotofusion in West Palm Beach and at The Palm Springs annual Photographic Festival. Her current career freelancing as a visual editor is focused on helping photographers elevate and 're-imagine' their own personal vision. She provides guidance for presentation, selection, editing, and sequencing for portfolios & media publications.